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Kiya Kyûzaemon was the second head of the ''[[Nihonmachi]]'' (Japantown) in the Siamese port & capital city of [[Ayutthaya]], beginning in [[1610]]. Little is known about him, and even his name is unclear, appearing in a number of secondary sources under the surname Kii, and/or the given name Kyûemon.
He succeeded [[Arima Sugihiro]] as head of the Japantown in 1610, and later, when he decided to return to Japan, he named [[Yamada Nagamasa]] his successor.
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==References==
*Cesare Polenghi, ''Samurai of Ayutthaya: Yamada Nagamasa, Japanese warrior and merchant in early seventeenth-century Siam''. Bangkok: White Lotus Press (2009), 40.
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